Quotes of Elimination - somelinesforyou

“ All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations. - Marge Piercy. ”

- Marge Piercy

“ A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. ”

- Margaret Atwood

“ I'm usually balanced, but I've been out of balance when I've had to focus on a few things to the exclusion of more creative aspects. ”

- Michael Kennedy

“ I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president. ”

- Alexander Haig

“ We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ The basic dream of many Colombians is to have a secure nation, without exclusions, with equity, and without hatred. ”

- Alvaro Uribe Velez

“ If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning "Good morning" at total strangers. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. ”

- C.S. Lewis

“ Certainly, this doesn't warrant a censure or expulsion. As I read the ethics subcommittee report, there's clearly no finding at all of any intentional violation. ”

- Peter King

“ Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy. ”

- George Carlin

“ Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone. ”

- Karl Barth

“ The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God. ”

- Henry Jacobsen

“ The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion. ”

- George Eliot

“ I yearn to see other chief executives throughout the nation follow suit, so that as a people we may hasten the elimination of barbarism as a tool of American justice. ”

- Winthrop Rockefeller

“ The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain. ”

- Epicurus

“ The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed — it is a process of elimination. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of the nonessentials. ”

- Lin Yutang

“ The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could we remain forever in Paradise, but that we are currently there, whether we know it or not. ”

- Franz Kafka
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